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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by lb7000 on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @12:23PM (#26891738)
From LKML

"A lot of these have already reached the stable trees. I can send you revert patches for stable by the end of today (if your scripts have not already done it)."

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YH%[email protected]...

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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by PeterisP on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @12:35PM (#26891896)
It's not saying that those are introduced bugs; IMHO they're just proactively reverting all commits from these people.
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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by capybara_2020 on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @02:00PM (#26893222)
> > > They introduce kernel bugs on purpose. Yesterday, I took a look on 4 > > > accepted patches from Aditya and 3 of them added various severity security > > > "holes".

It looks like actual security vulnerabilities were successfully added to the stable branch based on that comment.

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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by lfc07 on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @01:52PM (#26893087)
Yes because the UMN guys have made their intent clear, and even went on to defend their actions. They should have apologised and asked for reverting their patches.
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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by remexre on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @01:58PM (#26893192)
Which kind of sucks for everyone else at UMN, including people who are submitting actual security fixes...
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